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Civil War Soldiers - Ewing

Ewing, Charles, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, March 6, 1835. He was educated
at the Dominican college and at the University of Virginia, studied
law and was admitted to the bar, and when the Civil war broke out was
practising law in St. Louis, Mo. He was commissioned captain in the
13th infantry, May 14, 1861, and afterward served on the staff of his
brother-in-law, Gen. William T. Sherman. For his action at Vicksburg,
where he planted the flag of his battalion on the parapet of the
Confederate fort, receiving in this accomplishment a severe wound, he
was brevetted major, July 4, 1863, and for gallant and meritorious
services at Jackson, Collierville and Missionary ridge, and in the
Atlanta campaign, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel Sept. 1, 1864.
He was brevetted colonel in the regular army, March 13, 1865, for
gallant and meritorious services during the war. He was commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, March 8, 1865, and resigned his
commission July 31, 1867. Gen. Ewing then opened a successful law
practice in Washington, D. C, and died in Washington, June 20, 1883.

Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908

Ewing, Hugh, brigadier-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1826, and was educated at
the United States military academy. Going to California at the time of
the gold fever in 1849, he went to High Sierra in an expedition sent
out by his father, then secretary of the interior, to rescue snowbound
emigrants, and returned by way of Panama in 1852, as bearer of
despatches to Washington. He then resumed his law studies in
Lancaster, practised law from 1854 to 1856 in St. Louis, practising
after that in Leavenworth, Kan., and in 1858 removed to Ohio to take
charge of his father's salt works. He was appointed by Gov. Dennison
brigade-inspector of Ohio volunteers, in April, 1861, and served under
Rosecrans and McClellan in western Virginia. He was made colonel of
the 30th Ohio infantry, Aug. 20, 1861, was promoted brigadier-general
of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and on March 13, 1865, was given the
brevet rank of major-general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious
service during the war. He led the assault at South mountain which
drove the enemy from the summit, led a brigade in a brilliant charge
at Antietam, and served throughout the campaign before Vicksburg,
leading assaults made by Gen. Sherman, and upon its fall was placed in
command of a division. At Chattanooga his division formed the advance
of Sherman's army and carried Missionary ridge. He was ordered to
South Carolina in 1865, and was planning a secret expedition up the
Roanoke river to co-operate with the Army of the James, when Lee
surrendered. After the war Gen. Ewing served as United States minister
to Holland from 1866 to 1870, and then retired to a farm near
Lancaster, Ohio.

Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908

Ewing, Thomas, brigadier-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1829, and was educated at
Brown university, leaving college to act as private secretary to
President Taylor, 1849-50. He studied law in Cincinnati and began to
practice his profession there, but moved to Leavenworth, Kan., in
1856, became a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention of
1858, and in 1861 was elected chief justice of the state. In 1862 he
resigned his judgeship, recruited and became colonel of the 11th Kan.
volunteers, and with his regiment fought in the battles of Fort Wayne,
Cane hill and Prairie Grove. He was made brigadier-general March 13,
1863, for gallantry at Prairie Grove, and checked the invasion of
Missouri in Sept. -Oct., 1864, by holding Fort Davidson, at Pilot
Knob, with about 1,100 men, against the repeated attacks of the
Confederate forces under Price. He made a successful retreat to Rolla
in 1864, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted major-general of
volunteers for meritorious services at the battle of Pilot Knob. He
resigned from the army, Feb. 26, 1865, and practised law in
Washington, but returned to Lancaster in 1871, and from 1877-81 was a
member of Congress, where he prepared a bill to establish a bureau of
labor statistics, opposed the presence of soldiers at the polls, and
favored the remonetization of silver and the continuation of the use
of the greenback currency. In 1879 he was an unsuccessful candidate of
the Democratic party for governor of Ohio. At the close of his last
term in Congress, Gen. Ewing declined re-nomination and resumed his
law practice, making his office and residence in New York city. He
died in New York city, Jan. 21, 1896.

Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908